With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Statement from the Communist Party of Britain and its Women's Organiser CAROL STAVRIS to mark UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
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DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
THROUGHOUT the world, November 25 is recognised as the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
World Health Organisation research estimates that one in three women globally experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. Most violence comes from an intimate partner.
In poor regions of the world, in war zones and in countries with authoritarian regimes, women’s health, wellbeing and safety are badly compromised.
In countries with histories of misogyny, levels of femicide — the killing of women because they are women — have always been high. Some progressive governments, for example in Mexico, are now recognising this and attempting to change their cultures.
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